Perhaps you did not pick the correct biases? Remember the way that Rational!Harry convinced Draco Malfoy? You need to start small. First produce a belief that your methods lead to more correct results, then build up more and more biases and have them create a more accurate picture of the world. Then when you have a critical mass, go for a bias that is more central to their worldview. You need your ideas to be strong enough to win the inevitable contradiction war.
Consider that LessWrong is a self selected community. People come here, read the site, and only stay if they agree. What if out of 10000 potential members the site only convinces 5% or 10%? And furthermore the people who disagree here don’t have the power to control the conversation so as to throw off people on the fence or people who have a small initial agreement.
Personally my anecdotal experience, re: convincing people of atheism, is that you need to focus on doubters and even then you maybe only get a 1⁄10 ideal result. Group conversions are unlikely to be effective. Maybe aim for a few people to talk to you afterwards about more info on the topic.
Perhaps you did not pick the correct biases? Remember the way that Rational!Harry convinced Draco Malfoy? You need to start small. First produce a belief that your methods lead to more correct results, then build up more and more biases and have them create a more accurate picture of the world. Then when you have a critical mass, go for a bias that is more central to their worldview. You need your ideas to be strong enough to win the inevitable contradiction war.
Consider that LessWrong is a self selected community. People come here, read the site, and only stay if they agree. What if out of 10000 potential members the site only convinces 5% or 10%? And furthermore the people who disagree here don’t have the power to control the conversation so as to throw off people on the fence or people who have a small initial agreement.
Personally my anecdotal experience, re: convincing people of atheism, is that you need to focus on doubters and even then you maybe only get a 1⁄10 ideal result. Group conversions are unlikely to be effective. Maybe aim for a few people to talk to you afterwards about more info on the topic.